Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1993, 6:18 PM CDT for Limestone County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1993, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Limestone County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Centreville/Bibb, AL (KCKL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 300 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AT 255 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN THE EAST CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE...JUST WEST OF AUBURN...AND JUST SOUTH OF TUSKEGEE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...BETWEEN DOTHAN AND FLORALA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN ...STONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 300 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AT 255 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN THE EAST CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE...JUST WEST OF AUBURN...AND JUST SOUTH OF TUSKEGEE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...BETWEEN DOTHAN AND FLORALA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMSd WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN ...STONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 4:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-282245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 425 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 415 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN THE EAST ALABAMA...BETWEEN AUBURN AND DOTHAN. AND OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM NEAR FT DEPOSIT TO THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA STATE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN ...STONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORHMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 4:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-282245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 425 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 415 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN THE EAST ALABAMA...BETWEEN AUBURN AND DOTHAN. AND OVER SOUTH ALABAMA FROM NEAR FT DEPOSIT TO THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA STATE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED LITTLE MOVEMENT. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN ...STONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 5:43 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-290015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 545 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 545 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR MONROEVILLE TO FT DEPOSIT TO JUST NORTH OF EUFAULA ON THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA STATE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 5:45 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
ALZ010-011-012-014-017-018-290015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 545 PM CDT WED JUL 28 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA... WEATHER RADAR AT MONTGOMERY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH ALABAMA AT 545 PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED IN A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM NEAR MONROEVILLE TO FT DEPOSIT TO JUST NORTH OF EUFAULA ON THE ALABAMA/GEORGIA STATE LINE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL RAIN ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER THAT ALL THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 42 min |
| Jul 28, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.